i’m never visiting Minneapolis, but i absolutely would visit sunny L.A. i could care less what comes before the word “Vikings”.

no offense, Minnesotans.

]]>By: zygizaghttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2743715
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:06:17 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2743715Can Zygi pay his share? Of course he can. I would not be surprised if the amount he will get for naming rights to the stadium covers his most, if not all of “his” cost.
]]>By: larry1957http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2742825
Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:53:43 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2742825There have been 6-7 deals that the Vikings have had in the last 15 years, that have all been shot DEAD. This new deal seemed promising. But alas, guess what, this new stadium might not be dealt after all. Money from the sale of “Electronic Pull Tabs” have basically been pennies not dollars. Last week, the State of Minnesota had cigarettes in a warehouse to sell after the Cigarette tax hike that took effect July 1st. This money accounts for $30 million to go to the new stadium. They still have to come up with the money to improve TCF Bank Stadium. 8000 more seats, heating coils under the turf, alcohol sales, advertising etc. Until I see the groundbreaking, I’ll believe it.
]]>By: dtrb10http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2741131
Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:54:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2741131Sorry haters!

SKIZOL!

]]>By: dtrb10http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2741128
Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:53:14 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2741128Zygi and Mark Wilf have told fans that the civil lawsuit against them will have “absolutely no impact” on the new $975 million stadium project. The Star Tribune says Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley on Friday said, “We remain confident that the stadium project will be completed as planned and on schedule.”

In fact, late Friday, Jeff Anderson, the team’s director of corporate communications, took to posting on Vikings.com that “Rest assured Vikings fans, the new home for Vikings football remains on time and on budget.”

You miss the point completely. Owners can care less about attendance. It’s a drop in the bucket as it relates to their bottom line. The Dodgers were a mess and sold for $2 billion+. Within a year, they lock up a $8+ billion local TV deal (more than the Yankees).

No one is paying 4 times the franchise value for TV rights for a team in Minnesota??? Not to mention big money advertisers.

Big money is in the big markets gang. Regardless of fan loyalty, attendance, etc. Is it fair? No. Is it reality? Absolutely.

We in LA will wait and watch as the big spenders do their thing. Not attend games until the team wins. Then riot and tear the city down when they do win (i.e. see any Lakers’ championship run).
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There are more likely movers than the Vikings….and you know this. San Diego for instance makes perfect sense. The Vikings have top 5 TV ratings as well right now. They are going no where.

You miss the point completely. Owners can care less about attendance. It’s a drop in the bucket as it relates to their bottom line. The Dodgers were a mess and sold for $2 billion+. Within a year, they lock up a $8+ billion local TV deal (more than the Yankees).

No one is paying 4 times the franchise value for TV rights for a team in Minnesota??? Not to mention big money advertisers.

Big money is in the big markets gang. Regardless of fan loyalty, attendance, etc. Is it fair? No. Is it reality? Absolutely.

We in LA will wait and watch as the big spenders do their thing. Not attend games until the team wins. Then riot and tear the city down when they do win (i.e. see any Lakers’ championship run).

]]>By: pack13queens0http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740185
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 23:08:50 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740185I hope this deal falls apart. The Vikings are the only team in the NFL without a season-ticket waiting list so moving them to LA only makes sense. Minnesota has the worst NFL fans, LA will support them 100%.
]]>By: mwatts1http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740181
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 23:06:32 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740181The team won’t move to LA because the “fans” there are all fair weather. If the team isn’t good no one will go to the games. LA had it’s chance with the Rams and Raiders, both teams moved.

Yea, lets move a team to LA… ha!

]]>By: teamnorsecorehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740156
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:52:54 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740156bresilhac says:
Aug 23, 2013 5:51 PM
The San Antonio Vikings. It’s inevitable…
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It didn’t happen why San Antionio’s own Red McCombs was the owner……….why would it now? Just stop.
]]>By: 84smooninlambeaunevergetsoldhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740150
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:50:47 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740150Dayton is using this to make himself look better for his failed, terrible funding idea. The stadium is going to be built. They are just dotting i’s, and crossing t’s.

But if they wanna cut costs, and get it done faster. Then forget putting the roof on it. That won’t happen, but it would be sweet.

]]>By: teamnorsecorehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740149
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:50:31 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740149taskforcefreddy says:
Aug 23, 2013 2:46 PM
As a packer fan, I sincerely hope this doesn’t happen but for those that think that this isn’t in the realm of being possible, you’re fooling yourself. Roger Goodell (and the rest of the owners) is finger tapping as we speak because the amount of revenue a team in LA would produce as opposed to the TC’s.

The plan that has been generated at the league office includes adding a new team to the AFC West from another division and right now the division that makes the most sense is the NFC North because the league would then transfer Kansas City to the NFC North thus evening out the divisions.

Remember, at the end of the day it’s all about the Benjamin’s and if this stadium agreement falls through, it doesn’t bode well for the fans of the Minnesota Vikings.
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I love how you talk like you are an insider at the NFL meetings……even knowing re-alignment plans. LOL……L.A. has had MULTIPLE chances to support an NFL team over the years and has FAILED every time. How would L.A. produce more revenue than Minnesota? Because they would sell out a season of games because its NEW and EXCITING…..only to have the fans lose interest as has happened every time in the past out there? The Vikings have had top 10 attendance numbers in the league since their first year, 1961. The stadium bill has been signed INTO LAW in Minnesota already. All this is, is political posturing and Dayton is trying to impress the pundits for re-election coming up.

]]>By: filthymcnasty1http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740141
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:45:01 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740141It makes you wonder about that home game they’re playing in London. Why on earth would they want to come back to hapless, tasteless MN after that?
]]>By: Dolphins Nationhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740121
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:34:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740121Where there is smoke, there is fire.
]]>By: badgerbuckhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740120
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:34:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740120Would people in Minnesota really miss the vikings if they left?
]]>By: upperdecker19http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740079
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:10:37 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740079As an L.A. guy here, I can tell you without a doubt that 90%+ of the population here could care less if we get a team. It’d be neat, I guess. But don’t really care.

Now London…..that and Roger’s love affair with the possibility of regular Euro NFL games are your problem Minnesota.

]]>By: jredshoeshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740059
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:02:02 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740059Two things I’ve surmised from all this is Dayton must be a democrat because he seems like a weasel and Dogsweat is hallucinating if he thinks KC (an original AFL team) would ever switch to the NFC.
]]>By: briang123http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740042
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:57:11 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740042There’s a concern that, if the construction doesn’t begin in November 2012, the stadium may not be ready in time for the 2016 season.
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Quick, someone call Dr. Brown and borrow the DeLorean

]]>By: bresilhachttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740026
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:51:17 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740026The San Antonio Vikings. It’s inevitable…
]]>By: jprcoxhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2740016
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:48:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2740016I am not a Viking’s fan, but the idea the Vikes could move to LA is nearly impossible. They are a well supported team, and there is a blimp with the ownership/stadium which will resolve itself. Moving to LA wouldn’t be smart – LA has lost teams in the past for light support.

Raiders didn’t return home to Oakland for sentimental reasons I promise.

]]>By: 1bigtexhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2739999
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:42:21 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2739999People bag on Jerry Jones, but Jones was able to partner with the seventh largest city in the State of Texas and get arguably the finest sports stadium in the world built. Meanwhile, the whole State of Minnesota can’t get off square one.
]]>By: stellarperformancehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2739919
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:17:50 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2739919The contract investigators saw something they didn’t quite like and sent over a battery of questions to the man-on-the-hill (Wilf) for clarification, and he thought “Damn. Caught.”

His only alternative is to make the investigators, the fans, the governor, the citizens of Minnesota, and anybody else that stands in his way…..to look as though THEY are the bad guys. He’ll play it out in the press to deflect attention from himself.

]]>By: jeremycrowhursthttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2739904
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:14:48 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2739904The Vikings have been threatening to move to L.A. since 1978, I think including during the time that the Raiders and Rams were there.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

]]>By: donth8thehornshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/23/vikings-break-off-stadium-talks/#comment-2739860
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:57:34 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-27398600% chance this falls apart, unless the Wilfs have frauded the state, which is unlikely
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Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:56:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2204741#comment-2739855jayniner says:
Aug 23, 2013 1:36 PM
As much as we want football back here in southern California, I’m going to point out the obvious for those that think it’s going to happen next year…

“There’s a concern that, if the construction doesn’t begin in November 2012, the stadium may not be ready in time for the 2016 season.”
(I’m sure they meant 2013, Not 2012)

It’s going to take 3 years to build a stadium, whether in Minnesota or L.A. At least in Minnesota, they have a location and plans in place…..L.A. has squat besides talk and speculation that Chavez Ravine and Anaheim could be used.

Not only is there no foreseeable location for a football franchise in L.A., but it’ll take another year just to get permits and approvals to build a stadium and that’s assuming a location were to be identified today. On top of that, another 3 years to build. So we’re 4 years out from today.
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Roski still has his location in Industry with the environmental impact waived does he not?

The downtown “Farmer’s” plan makes no sense IMO, but Roski owns the land in Industry, has a plan in place and is just waiting for the go ahead to break ground. Finding a temporary home for the team really shouldn’t be all that hard.